March, 1955 - Milwaukee Road Archive

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Present Day
SAFETY Requirements
DEMAND the Best
Equipment
LAKESIDE
FUSEES
Fill the Bill
Safe Dependable Efficient
LAKESIDE RAILWAY
FUSEE COMPANY
Beloit, Wisconsin
CREOSOTED
MATERIALS
and
COAL TAR
PRODUCTS
Republic Creosoting Co.
Minneapolis
February, is recuperating at home.
Mrs. Hugh E. Jones, who was hospitalized
for three weeks at St. Luke's, is now at home
on a three-month sick leave. Her position is
being held by Mrs. Hazel McCalley.
George McLane of Council Bluffs, former
passenger conductor between Marion and
Omaha, is in a hospital at Council Bluffs at
this writing.
Milo Dlask, checker at the Cedar Rapids
freight house, has returned to work after a
long leave of absence.
Foreman Arnold T. Bryson, who has been
in charge of the section at Monticello, is now
foreman at Amana on the old K. C. Division
where he spent many years in the M. of W.
department. ]. ]. Smith has been assigned
to Monticello. Clarence Gregerson, temporarily
working as section foreman at Maxwell,
was permanently assigned to that job in
January.
The Marion High School basketball team
won the championship in the Wamac conference
and the week of Feb. 20 played in
the Iowa City district tournament. Darell
Failor, son of Chief Clerk W. E. Failor and
a junior at the Marion school, is on the team.
He was a regular member of the Marion five
while still a sophomore.
John ]. Gavin, roundhouse foreman for
many years, died at Mercy Hospital in Cedar
Rapids on Feb. 1 after a long illness. At one
time he was in the mechanical department at
Ottumwa, from there he transferred to Elgin
as a roundhouse foreman, and before coming
to Cedar Rapids on Jan. 1, 1953, was foreman
in the roundhouse at West Clinton, Ind.
PRODUCTS AND SERVICE FOR
Gas and Electric Welding
Hand or Machine Gas Cutting
Flame Cleaning, Flame Hardening
Car Scrapping and Reclamation
Due to the abolishment of the foreman's position
at Cedar Rapids, he went to Savanna in
that capacity for three months, but because of
ill health returned to his home in Cedar Rapids
last July 1 and was on sick leave at the
time of his death. Affiliated with Immaculate
Conception Church, he was a member of the
Knights of Columbus; also a veteran of World
War 1. Burial was in Cedar Rapids. Surviving
are his wife, Winifred; two sons, John
J. Jr., and Lawrence Michael; and four daughters,
Joan Elizabeth, Rita Mary and Barbara
Jean of Cedar Rapids, and Ann Niebrugge of
Chillicothe, Ohio.
On Feb. 9, A. H. Hobert, retired M. of W.
employe, died at his home in Hawkeye. He
was born in Germany on Apr. 7, 1876 and
came to the United States with his parents
at the age of 7. For 50 years he was employed
by the Road, living at Monticello from
1933 to 1946, when he moved to Hawkeye.
He retired in 1945 as section foreman. He is
survived by his wife; four sons, Harold and
W. ]. of Hawkeye, Marcus of Van Horne
and A. H. Jr., of Monticello; and two daughters,
Mrs. Raymond Champlin of Pittsburgh
and Mrs. Jack Beeks of Hinsdale, Ill. Burial
was at Hawkeye.
MIDDLE & WEST
Ruby Eckman, Correspondent
Dispatcher's Office, Perry
Miss Gertrude Donahoe, agent at Waukee
who was employed as a supervisor for the
Western Union Telegraph Company before
coming to the Milwaukee last year, was featured
in the January issue of Telegraph News,
the Western Union employe publication. A
picture of Miss Donahoe was used with a
story about the improvements she has made in
the station buildings and grounds by giving
them "the woman's touch".
Ruben DeWald, agent at Fostoria, was married
Feb. 5 at the M. E. Church in Jefferson
to Miss Evelyn Annear of Adaza. They plan
to make their home for the present at Adaza,
where Ruben formerly worked, as the bride is
employed in the First State Bank in Churdan.
They took a honeymoon trip to California
when Ruben had his vacation later in the
month.
Active and retired employes who took advantage
of travel to escape some of our cold
weather included Engineer and Mrs. Owen
Fox, Conductor and Mrs. W. S. Delaney, Conductor
and Mrs. Ralph VanHorne and Retired
Conductor Frank Johnson and wife, who
went to Florida. California attracted Retired
Engineer and Mrs. E. C. Hullerman, Conductor
and Mrs. Carl Vodenik, and Retired Agent
and Mrs. H. C. Krasche. Engineer and Mrs.
Clyde Ibson went to Arizona to visit their
daughters. Retired Engineer and Mrs. Fred
Peterson took their annual trek to St. Petersburg,
Fla., and Conductor and Mrs. William
Stevenson their annual trip to Hot Springs,
Ark. The latter's son William Jr., who lives
in LaCrosse, joined them.
Kevin Lee Reilly, born in Savanna Jan. 29
to Signalman E. T. Reilly and wife, is a new
grandson for Agent O. ]. Atkins Jr., the
mother being the former Sally Atkins of Manning,
Ia.
Richard Steven Heenan, born in Perry Feb.
7, is the first son of Brakeman Richard Heenan,
now with the armed forces in Germany.
His grandfather is Yardmaster Gene Heenan
of the Perry yard force, and his great-grand-
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